The 242nd Training Centre of the Airborne Forces (242 TC VDV) is a brigade-sized training formation of the Russian Airborne Troops. To prepare sergeants and junior specialists for airborne units in accordance with a directive of the Commander Soviet Ground Forces, the 4th Training Airborne Division was formed in July–October 1960 in Ostrov and Cheryokha, in Pskov Oblast. Division personally formed while Deputy Commander of Airborne Troops, Lieutenant-General VF Margelov. The formation's birthday is 17 September. Michael Holm reports the Centre disbanded on 30 November 2009.
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